Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

We are all terminal.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Birth was the death of him.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

I always know I can die at any moment.

Everyone is going to die.

We're all going to die.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.